Improvement in carriage-spring clips and plates



HENRY M. BEECHER.

Improvement in Carriage Spring Clip and Plate.

No. 122,428, K n I Patentedlan-Q, i872.

HENRY M. BEECHER, or PLANTSVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-SPRING CLIPS AND PLATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent "No. 122,428, dated January2, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY M. BEECHER, of Piantsville, in the county ofHartford and State of Connecticut, have invented new 1111- provements inCarriage Spriu g Clips and Plates, of which the following is aspecification My invention consists in the employment of a grooverunning longitudinally through un- .central, longitudinal, and verticalsection of the same. 7

A A designate the spring-clips, which may be made of anyv designdesired. On the under side of the head a is a groove, b, Fig. 2. Thisgroove is formed by compression in the act of forgingthe article, and"therefore the stock is reduced at the head a and thrown outward towardthe intersection of the head a and arms 0 0, whereby lamable to forgefull and square corners (1 without previously upsetting the stock orusing a rod of iron larger than is necessary to form the body of thearms 0 0. The arms 0 c are threaded and provided with nuts f, as inordinary clips. The plate Bis cut out in dies from sheet metal, and mayhe plain or as ornamental as may be desired. On or neareach end of theplate B I strike up or swage a ridge, h, the position of which isindicated by broken lines in Fig. 1.

The clips A A are placed over the plate B, the ridge It being receivedin the groove b, which will, when the clips are drawn down by means ofthe nuts f f, hold said clips from working sidewise on the plate.

By my invention the plates are cheaply made, and the ridge thereon isentirely hid from view, while the groove, in addition to performing theoftice of holding the clip in place, produces the desirable and perfectsquare corners without adding auythln g to the cost of production.

I claim as my invention- 1. A carriage-springclip in which the groove bis forged in the under side of the head, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

2. The clips A A provided with the groove J b, in combination with thesheet-metal plate B provided with the single swaged ridge h at or neareach end, all substantiallyas andfor the purpose describcdT"3=\Vitnesses J Aims SHEPARD,

G. A. SHEPARD.

HENRY M. fiEEcHEn.

